Great album or Greatest album?
I listen to this like ... once a week ... as part of my aural diet.
I highly recommend it. Terry's piano is tuned to the beautiful and mysterious just intonation much like La Monte Young's masterwork The Well-Tuned Piano. Except that where La Monte gave us meditative, sweeping winds of sound, Terry seems to explore the whole range of human emotion through various pieces and styles.
Make sure you get the one with the following tracklisting:
1) The New Albion Chorale / The Discovery
2) The Orchestra of Tao
3) Riding The Westerlys
4) Cadence on the Wind
5) Premonition Rag
6) Return of the Ancestors
7) Ascending Whale Dreams
The Magic Knot Waltz
9) Circle of Wolves
10) Land's End
Reason I mention the track list is because I first heard the album without 1) and 3) that I listed for some reason and 1) is breathtakingly beautiful and a beautiful opener.
It will be a musical experience like none other you've experienced, I promise. Also, give it time! It might be off putting if you aren't familiar with such sound but in time it will become dear to you as it is to me. This would be one of my "desert island" albums.
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